Friday, September 22, 2006

Today, the morning session of algebra started from 9 am, so that I waked up at 7 am. I went to the topological string session intermediately included in the geometry session at the morning. Then I heard the talks of Painleve equations and algebraic geometry by Masahiko Saito (Kobe), global structure of quantum D-modules (Wall-crossing and Chen-Ruan orbifold Gromov-Witten) by Iritani, and higher dimensional (Log) Minimal Model Program and Standard Models by Shokurov and Kollar et.al. The existence is proved inductively but the terminality is not.

I was not sure what is the relation between the wall-crossing and the geometric transition for open-closed duality of generating function of Gromov-Witten invariants under flip.

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Today I skipped the morning session, and heard the session on the infinite analysis on the quantum invariants and modular forms. I also saw several aquaintances before and after the award ceremony, which was dedicated to the work of inverse scattering problem of 3 particles.

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

I did my oral presentaion at the morning session. There was an interval before my presentation. I did my trial towards automorphic representationｓ, but I could not reproduce the modular form of 9 point generic point blowup of CP^2.

Monday, September 18, 2006

I arrived at Shin-osaka by the bullet train to stay at the Osaka City University again. Fortunately, it was not raining because the typhoon vanished. Today was my birthday, so that I ate a birthday cake and the barbecue at the dinner.

About Me

Makoto Sakurai (桜井 [family name] 真 [given name]) -- not 誠 -- is a popular name in the Japanese society, but do not confuse it with the article of Wikipedia or that of J.J.Sakurai for the "Modern Quantum Mechanics" [it's too old as physics in research] and its exercise.

I am affiliated to the American Mathematical Society (2005 Nov-), the Mathematical Society of Japan (2006 Sep-), the Physical Society of Japan (2004 Sep-), and la Société Mathématique de France (2014-Sep-).